Staff Software Engineer (USD Authoring)

Location: Vancouver, Canada

Salary: C$143,100–C$191,950 per year

Company

An animation studio combining filmmaking, storytelling, and advanced production technology to create feature films.

What you will do

• Design and implement core infrastructure for shot, environment, and asset definitions.
• Build APIs, libraries, interfaces, and data management tools for accessing and editing shot content.
• Develop artist dashboards, plugins, and tools for story development and production workflows.
• Integrate external digital content creation applications into the production pipeline.
• Identify and solve technical obstacles for artists and technical directors.
• Lead architectural design, implementation, adoption planning, and incremental integration of new frameworks.

Requirements

• Strong experience with C++, Python, USD (Universal Scene Description), and Qt.
• 7+ years of experience designing and developing interactive tools, including 3+ years in senior technical roles focused on core infrastructure.
• Extensive experience designing APIs from scratch and extending existing frameworks.
• Experience defining data models, GUI toolkits, core libraries, and evaluation engines.
• Ability to lead cross-disciplinary engineering initiatives and collaborate with artists, stakeholders, and technology leadership.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of computer graphics, animation techniques, graphics algorithms, linear algebra, and numerical methods.
• Experience with modern UI development toolkits, continuous integration, testing principles, and technical mentoring.
• Master’s degree in Computer Science.

Culture & Benefits

• Work closely with artists, production leaders, technical directors, engineers, technologists, and researchers.
• Develop across the full stack of production tools, from algorithms and core libraries to artist-facing interfaces.
• Use a high-performance, extensible in-house application framework.
• Build interaction models using new hardware and technologies.
• Medical, financial, and other benefits may be offered depending on the level and position.